About
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Most Recent Publications
BOOKS
The Chinese Empire in Transformation: Sea Power, Foreign Trade, and Gilding Modernity in Late Imperial China, 900-1900. Oversize, 500 pages, paperback ed. (Ann Arbor, 2018).
Singing History: Theater, State, and Cultural Inquisition in Ming-Ch’ing China. Oversize, 265 pages, Paperback ed. (Ann Arbor, 2017). Hardcover ed. Revised and enlarged; Ann Arbor, 2018.
Change Within Traditions: History, Kingship, and Empire in Late Imperial China, 900-1900. Oversize, 405 pages. Paperback ed. Ann Arbor, 2016.
New Studies on Han China, ca. 200 B.C.-200 A.D.: Archaeological Discoveries and Historical Reconstructions. Oversize, 248 pages. Paperback ed. Ann Arbor, 2016.
Theater and State in Seventeenth-Century China. Oversize, 202 pages. Paperback ed. Revised and enlarged; Ann Arbor, 2016.
ARTICLES
“Writing and Literacy in Early China,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Vol. 43, No. 4 (Spring 2013), pp. 649-651.
“On Ancient and Medieval China,” Journal of World History, Vol. 26, No. 4 (September 2015), pp. 684-689.
Selected Publications
The Rise of the Chinese Empire, I: Nation, State, and Imperialism in China, ca. 1600- B.C. - 8 A.D. University of Michigan Press, 2007
**2008 University Press Award for the Best Published Work
The Rise of the Chinese Empire, II: Frontier, Immigration, and Empire in Han China, 130 B.C. - A.D. 157. University of Michigan Press, 2007
**2008 University Press Book Award
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity, with Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang. University of Michigan Press, 1992, 1998
**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P’u Sung’s World, 1640-1715. With Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang. The University of Michigan Press, 1998
Theater and State in Seventeenth-Century China. With Shelley Chang. University of Michigan Press, 1999-2000. Enlarged and revised ed., 2012.
South China in the Twelfth Century: Lu Yu’s Travel Diaries, July 3-December 6, 1170. Seattle, WA, 1982. Commissioned by Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University.
**Warner G. Rice Humanities Award
Ship, Trade, and Nation in Early Modern China: Part I: History, Kingship, and Empire, 960-1750. 2015.
Ming-Qing shidai zhi shehui jingji jubian yu xin wenhua 明清时代之社会经济巨变与新文化 (Socio-economic Revolution and “New Culture” in Ming-Qing China, 1550-1700). Shanghai: Guji chuban she, 2008/9. With Loh Hsueh-lun [Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang].
Kuo-shih, Kuo-hsueh, Kuo-chia 國史 國學 與 國家(Guoshi, Guoxue, yu Guojia; Chinese History, Chinese Studies, and Chinese Nationalism, 1898-1931). (Written in Classical Chinese). Taipei: Chung-hua chien-tu, 2006. Revised 2011. Simplified Chinese edition, Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2010. New ed. with a new preface 2013.
Chung-kuo chin-shih chih jen-wu ssu-hsing yu wen-hua ching-shen 中國近世之人物思想 与文化精神 (The Intellectuals and Their Cultural World in Early Modern China, 960-1800 A.D.). Taipei, 1998.
Affiliation
Field(s) of Study
- History and civilization of China, 1600 BC-1800 AD: sociolcultural, intellectual-literary, military-diplomatic, historiography, science and technology
